This comic has been inspired by many things that I have seen, read or experienced during my time on the interwebz.
Some of the behaviour and stupidity that online activity can bring out of people is absolutely mind-blowing.

A very recent example of this is the “Facebook Login” dramas on the ReadWriteWeb site.
If you do not know about this, you should take a look. Start with this article to give you the background on the story.

This is only one of many examples of users not reading things before acting, or just not understanding what they are doing online in the first place.

I personally feel that there should be a structured education program about the internet, usage and etiquette in our schools.
This education program should begin in the First grade and continue up until the end of High school.
The program should be GLOBAL, so that no-one misses out unnecessarily.

If we tried to implement something, then in a few year, perhaps we would not need sites like lamebook.com, or be seeing videos such as this one by Google, which asks a simple question: “What is a Browser?”

Perhaps we also need to explain to everyone at some point, that activities like those shown in this video, are not how the internet or computers work in the real world.

I feel that the media should run educational ads about how the internet works, for free.
Let’s face it, they are to blame for so much dis-information, it is their responsibility to try to help fix the problems.

Timely post. I gave a presentation to a group of about 70 small business owners the other day. It seems to be the thing to do when promoting an event saying that “our guest speaker is a social media guru.” Having read this several times, I had to add a slide in that addresses the term. Dig through the presentation and check it out. It says “Ditch the Guru. Hire a professional.”

The real question though, is will they get it and actually “ditch the guru”?
The other message I wish they would get, is that using a friend / son / neighbours son, etc to build a professional website (just because they said they can do one and will only charge a few hundred dollars) will probably end in tears.

Sad thing is that there really are internet police… at least where I am~
Try being in a country that has heavy internet censorship… Damn the GFW!
I can almost imagine the ‘internet police’ coming over to catch me now for saying this…. and for my futile efforts in just trying to access FB…. *sigh*

There’s no place like home…. (Oz)
Thx for the great comics~ they really brighten my day!

hey this really funny.Schools giving internet etiquettes doesnt make any sense now, but the way nowadays conversations go about really gets one off the nerves.Also an internet police does gives one safety but to what extent one doesnt know.

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